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Sunday, 22 September 2013

The Elefest Festival in Elephant & Castle

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The Elefest Festival takes place over the weekend of 4th - 6th October around Elephant & Castle, and includes lots of events - highlights below - including a market from The StockMKT and some pop-up ping pong from old friends PUPP. Some things are free, and some are ticketed - full programme is here.

"The festival takes place over the weekend of 4-6 October in various venues around the Elephant & Castle; I think you and your followers will be particularly interested in the main venue which is a pop-up space in a warehouse currently being refurbished by the artists from Hotel Elephant Gallery. In the Hotel Elephant Warehouse we'll be hosting: - a pop-up cinema/club screening Noise of Art's Wicker Man remix; the only UK screening of the restored Jamaican cult film The Harder They Come with a DJ set by Don Letts (BBC 6 Music); a pop-up screening of British thriller London to Brighton + Q&A with its leading actor Johnny Harris (This is England '86-'88)- pop-up market by TheStockMKT with food and artisanal drinks, arts & crafts, and live music- pop-up ping pong by PuPP- pop-up skateboarding with the UK Skateboarding Film FestivalOther pop-up events included in the Elefest programme are:- The Electric Elephant Cafe and Gallery will be turning into a pop-up cinema space for a free screening of London The Modern Babylon and a selection of shorts from the BFI's London collection - Hotel Elephant are hosting a special exhibition (Volume & Void) in a pop-up venue on the demolition site of the Heygate Estate - Guerrilla Gardening will be doing a dig around the Elephant ending with a Latin American music party/bring your own food BBQ in the Mobile Gardeners' Park, a great pop-up community urban garden (which incidentally is also part of Open House this weekend) - Incredible Edible Southwark will also be doing a pop-up food event cooking up a feast with produce grown, harvested and sourced in SE1"